daf* radiomodes broken by the BBC!

[artisticforge .]

hello Vangelis;

i would offer my programming abilities, but I have learned my lesson
of programming under the influence of medications. on clearer days I
look
at it and wonder why i wrote code like that to begin with.




On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 8:23 PM, Vangelis forthnet
<northmedia1 at the.forthnet.gr> wrote:
> On Fri May 12 01:02:11 BST 2017, tellyaddict wrote:
>
>> Flash modes seem to be vanishing as well in 2.99
>> and still just about available in 2.96.
>
>
> Having been away all day from home,
> I only recently became aware
> of the breakage I posted about :-(
>
> But I was equally p****d to discover that
> not only the quick daf modes were gone,
> flashaac modes in my GiP 2.97 copy
> weren't picked up either... ;-{
> Flashaac modes were very quick for me,
> alas I tried GiP 2.96 but still no joy:
>
> perl get_iplayer-296.pl --type=radio --pid=b08njqcb -i | FindStr modes =>
>
> modes:          default:
> hafhigh1,hafhigh2,hafstd1,hafstd2,hafmed1,hafmed2,haflo
> w1,haflow2,hlsaacstd1,hlsaaclow1
>
> Haf* modes are VERY slow compared to either daf*/flash*,
> while whereas the hlsaac* ones are much quicker, they may
> be corrupted for many programmes :-(
>
> I guess it's a safe bet to say we're in no luck getting
> the flash modes back, as the maintainer has already
> removed them in GiP 3.00+ and does not support
> that deprecated code...
>
>> I'm finding it very frustrating at the moment
>> since Dinky has stopped publishing fixes
>> in the development version on Github
>> until the final version is actually released.
>
>
> ... Gone are those days; I can echo your feelings
> completely... And he's not willing to divulge any
> details in the forums either, so lose-lose situation
> any way you look at it...
>
>> but what has actually changed?
>> (snip)
>> Again what's changed
>
>
> Well, as you say both MPEG-DASH and RTMP
> streams are both present inside the mediaselector API
> URL for mediaset=pc, e.g. in the case of my mentioned
> radio pid=b08njqcb => vpid=b08njqby =>
>
> http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/select/version/2.0/mediaset/pc/vpid/b08njqby
>
> I am not the most appropriate person to answer
> your "what" questions, especially since it's very
> late at night here... Obviously something has been changed
> in the XML blocks there or in the href URLs
> themselves and thus GiP can no longer parse
> this data successfully because it's not in a form
> expected by GiP; sadly, as I'm sure you know,
> I'm not a coder or regex expert, so
> can't provide solutions for you/us...
>
> If it comes to that, DASH manifest files can be
> downloaded with youtube-dl, while for RTMP
> streams one can always construct manual rtmpdump
> commands (TBH though, haven't done that in a
> big while...).
>
> I'm sorry to say this again, but what this "low-traffic" list
> needs is for some serious perl coders to come forth and
> share their knowledge in a more "liberal" fashion - yes,
> the sole maintainer is highly commendable for his
> unwanning efforts over the years, but there's a but...
>
> Goodnight (and Lord Knows what else'll broken
> tomorrow ;-( ).
>
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